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white spots ; apical area suffused with fulvous-ochreous with a small black 

 central spot : cilia grey, round apex white with two blackish lines. Hind- 

 wings dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Khasi Hills, in September ; one specimen. 



Phrixosceles, n. g. 



Head smooth ; tongue developed. Antennas over 1, filiform, simple, basal 

 joint moderately elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, curved, slender, 

 smooth-scaled, terminal joint rather shorter than second, pointed. Maxillary 

 palpi short, slender, filiform, porrected. Middle and posterior tibia? and two or 

 three joints of tarsi above with rough projecting bristly scales. Forewings with 

 lower fork of vein lb obsolete, 2 and 3 obsolete towards origin, 4 and 5 connate, 

 7 to costa, 8 absent, 11 from near base, Hindwings J, linear, cilia 6 : 2-7 

 separate, 6 and 7 closely approximated. 



Type P. trochosticha. Differs from Acrocercops in having the middle tibiae 

 and two or more joints of both middle and posterior tarsi bristly, whereas in 

 that genus only the posterior tibiae and first joint of tarsi are so. 



Phrixosceles literaria, n. sp. 



£. 8 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white. Antenna? white, finely dotted 

 with dark fuscous. (Abdomen broken.) Legs white spotted with blackish. 

 Forewings very narrowly elongate, parallel-sided, short-pointed ; white ; five 

 irregular blackish spots on anterior § of costa, first two small and connected 

 with dorsum by fine fuscous lines, others longer and reaching more than half 

 across wing ; three rather oblique blackish marks from dorsum about middle, 

 reaching half across wing, central one longer ; two small blackish spots on costa 

 beyond middle, and a fine oblique strigula from dorsum opposite ; a blackish 

 ring in disc at f ; a fine transverse blackish line midway between this and apex, 

 preceded by a short oblique dorsal strigula ; a small brownish apical spot finely 

 edged anteriorly with black : cilia white, beneath tornus greyish, round apex 

 with base brownish edged by some blackish specks. Hindwings rather dark 

 grey ; cilia light grey. 



Maskeliya Ceylon , in January (Pole) ; one specimen . 



Phrixosceles campszgrapha, n. sp. 



£ . 9 mm. Head, palpi, and antenna? white. Thorax white, shoulders yel- 

 lowish. (Abdomen broken.) Legs white, banded with ochreous-yellowish. 

 Forewings very uarrowly elongate-lanceolate, very h|ng pointed ; white : four 

 pairs of fine transverse dark grey lines edged with yellowish, first three pairs 

 on anterior half of wing, third pair sinuate-angulated in middle, hardly oblique, 

 entire, fourth beyond middle, oblique, filled up with ochreous-yellowish ; be- 

 yond this the wing is pale yellow, with two white longitudinal subsmuate lines 

 edged with blackish irrorations, and a short white dorsal streak beyond fourth 

 fascia : cilia whitish-ochreous, towards tornus greyish, round apex with a 

 blackish median line. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia grey. 



Maskeliya, Ceylon, in February (Pole) ; one specimen. Very like P. trocho- 

 sticha, but antenna? wholly white, third fascia of forewings less oblique and 



